What opportunity, the chance to assassinated by a white man? Some opportunity.

Er, well, sort of! I don't think that was their targetaim goal but they said and did things that actually caused people problems. To be worth assassinating, Ashley Judd would have to say something to make silencing her worthwhile.

To be fair, she still has that chance. She'd be upsetting the (far) right people.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

I've thought about getting a GPS collar for my cat but, ironically, I'd be worried about losing it. He wears snap collars, designed to break off so he doesn't hang himself while climbing, so every few months he comes home naked - probably just the collar getting harmlessly caught on something but I don't know.

Hopefully they will be cheaper - and smaller - in a few years' time.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

It's not fake news. You'd have made a better point if you hadn't compared it to Pizzagate.

You're right that this is lousy, emotionally manipulative journalism that clouds the issue. For a start the dog isn't terrified, that's tabloid sensationalism. It's unhappy and scared but I worked at an animal rescue centre, I'd love to have only seen dogs like that one arrive.

I would not assume that animals in any movie labelled "no animals were harmed during production" are treated any better. That's the real issue, but one that would require TMZ to lift a phone or something.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

Verno wrote on Jan 17, 2017, 16:17:Was Skyfall the one where the plot device was a leaked list agent list and they ran out of money and filmed a home alone third act? Yeah that one was...not good at all. I remember laughing at mister glass jaw in that. Quantum of Solace had its issues but it was still a better experience than Skyfall.

Yes, Skyfall was the one that gave you all the backstory on Bond's upbringing that you never asked for, took away all the mystery surrounding him, and ended up with him being Kevin McCallister.

Easily the worst of the new Bond movies. I know it gets a ton of praise, but my god, I never needed to know where Bond grew up. It wasn't quite as bad as Halloween 6 explaining how the druids were responsible for Michael Meyers, but it's up there for backstories I never needed explained.

I enjoyed Skyfall while watching but thinking about it afterwards, so many things fell apart. I'm sure there are exceptions but movie twists about villains deliberately getting caught never seem to work. Also, creepiest sex scene in any Bond film. Going into Bond's upbringing was a bad idea and I've heard Spectre takes this further, but I haven't bothered to watch it yet.

Casino Royale was brilliant. QoS was dull to watch but holds up better than Skyfall.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

Beamer wrote on Jan 17, 2017, 10:44:I mean, he's right and wrong. On one hand, yes, we've become a with-us-or-against-us nation, treating politics like sports teams.

That's true, and I was wary of contributing to that. I have little patience for those who explicitly criticise what they perceive as thin skin - they're not going to mind, right? - but that doesn't apply here.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

Retired wrote on Jan 17, 2017, 07:53:We live in very difficult and strange times. In a period where people shout about injustices and equality, their true message is that of hatred towards the other side.

I hope at some point, the yelling stops, and the fixing begins.....I always come back to this idea that somewhere along the way we are now UNABLE to be ok with someone else's point of view and just take the stance that because you don't agree with me you hate me - so I hate you.

I think MLK Jr is rolling in his grave.

Maybe the fixing begins when people - white men in particular - stop associating people shouting about injustices and equality with hatred. We tried having no one talk about these things, we had slavery and such like. Lets try opening our ears and minds because when we shit on the people being shit on because they're being shit on, we're only making things worse.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

Well said, Cutter. This and citing Harvard papers, you never cease to surprise me.

I would be in favour of investing in infrastructure - to a point, naturally - but I wouldn't trust Trump not to award huge contracts to the newly formed Kushner Construction Company who do a piss poor job for future administrations to fix.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

Samsung must be prepared to spend quite a bit on battery tech and other manufacturers won't want to face the same PR disaster. At a guess future Samsung product releases will mention something like flame retardant batteries somewhere on their marketing material. Not prominently enough to remind people of the Note 7 but enough to be easily found by those who remember and want reassurance.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

Pigeon wrote on Jan 14, 2017, 12:14:If only rich people had more money then they could give more of it to the rest of us /s

Yeah, well they'll certainly be getting a lot richer starting next Friday. Unfortunately, giving it to other people isn't part of the plan. Everyone else will be getting poorer. A lot poorer. Make America's Elite Richer Again!

Trickle down economics, 2017: the more money the rich get, the more Russian hookers they can hire to piss on the rest of us.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

Fion wrote on Jan 13, 2017, 23:33:Switch is the first handheld/console I've considered buying in a long time. But more than a few issues here have made me heavily reconsider.

1) $300 base price that doesn't include all the core tools and not a single game seems a bit steep. Want another set of controllers? $90! A dock to charge them on? $90! A 'console' style charger that you plug the two controllers into that is basically just cheap plastic handles? $30! So if you want to be able to hook this up to a TV, using an x-box style controller (with half the functionality) to play with 2 people that's a $220 investment on top of the $300 core price. Absurd!

2) Paid MONTHLY Online Connectivity. The nail in the coffin. One of the biggest reasons I've avoided consoles in years is I refuse to pay them access to an internet I'm already paying for when that connectivity offers me literally nothing extra for the money. These companies expect me to pay them $50 a year for what.. voice chat? HAH!

Not to even speak of the little niggling details. 32gb of storage in today's world is horrid. Ah but 'it's expandable with SSD cards' I see posted on various forums. All but the most expensive SSD's run slower than a 5200RPM HDD!

Same. It looks interesting but that price is too much for me considering all the extras. Paying for online play is what ultimately prompted me to sell my Xbox 360.

(But you mean MicroSD, not SSD.)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

Exactly, far right paranoid delusions that you're brainwashed to believe and even if it wasn't, that's what you call an invasion that should spell the end for NATO? Also, migrants and Muslims, not the same thing.

This stuff is not the answer to unreliable news organisations. They have problems and prejudices of their own but this is worse.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

DangerDog wrote on Jan 13, 2017, 19:25:as for NATO they've already failed with most European countries being invaded with muslims without even firing a shot.

Oh for goodness sake. That's a far right paranoid delusion and a fundamentally bigoted attitude. Muslims are not a brainwashed cult, despite what you've been brainwashed to believe. Sort your self out.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

WaltC wrote on Jan 12, 2017, 14:12:CNN is getting amazing...Clapper didn't "reject" anything Trump said--rather, he apologized to Trump, said it was awful, and that no US intelligence sources were involved at all. CNN needs to be shut down and padlocked--all it does is spin one lie after the next. Worthless.

But Trump said that US intelligence sources were involved, so Clapper did reject Trump's claim. What did Clapper apologise for?

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

Quboid wrote on Jan 11, 2017, 21:49:My SSD didn't fit under the mobo. Have you had a problem with that? Either my OCZ SSD is a millimetre too wide or the slots are too narrow. I'm not going to run out of drive slots but that's an odd one.

You mean behind the mobo, right? Open the other panel and there are two SSD holders?

Yes.

I had the same issue on a build with the R5. The SSD mounts on top of the removable SSD holder that is located on the back of the motherboard plate, not underneath the SSD holder (or beneath it). I came real close to mangling the fudge out of the holder until I figured it out.

Wait, what?

*looks closer at instruction manual*

Oh.

Well, that explains that one!

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke